The 68^th anniversary of the very-first public school desegregation in the Southeastern  United States will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 from 5 to 7 pm in Bissell Park in Oak  Ridge. 

The anniversary celebration will be held at the future location of the planned Scarboro-85 Monument  and Historical Interpretive Site, next to the Oak Ridge Friendship Bell in center-city Bissell Park. The  public is cordially invited. It’s recommended that you bring your own chairs to the celebration. The  program will include a short service, choirs, and poetry — in remembrance of this landmark  achievement in American history. 

For further information on the celebration of this wonderful American civil rights anniversary, please  contact the Scarboro 85 Monument Committee Chairman, Coach John Spratling, at 865-363-9759 or jspratling@ortn.edu or Scarboro Historian, Ms. Rose Weaver, at 865-924-2987 or rs_wvr@yahoo.com .